Shayler, Kate,
The long way home : the story of a homes kid / Kate Shayler. - Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2001, c1999. - 346 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: S.l. : s.n., 1999.
The Long Way Home is the first instalment of Kate's life story. Kate grew up a "homes kid" in the 1950s and 60s, institutionalised into the Burnside Children's Home as a young child after the death of her mother. Kate and her two siblings were placed by their father into the Pennant Hills Burnside. Kate quickly learns to live by the rules of the home and endure the loneliness, cruelty, loss of self and sense of betrayal that came from her life in the homes and her monthly visits to her abusive father.
9781740510509
Shayler, Kate.
Children--Institutional care--Australia--Biography.
Foster children--Australia--Biography.
362.733 SHA
The long way home : the story of a homes kid / Kate Shayler. - Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2001, c1999. - 346 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: S.l. : s.n., 1999.
The Long Way Home is the first instalment of Kate's life story. Kate grew up a "homes kid" in the 1950s and 60s, institutionalised into the Burnside Children's Home as a young child after the death of her mother. Kate and her two siblings were placed by their father into the Pennant Hills Burnside. Kate quickly learns to live by the rules of the home and endure the loneliness, cruelty, loss of self and sense of betrayal that came from her life in the homes and her monthly visits to her abusive father.
9781740510509
Shayler, Kate.
Children--Institutional care--Australia--Biography.
Foster children--Australia--Biography.
362.733 SHA